{"id":86,"date":"2009-03-17T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T00:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peter-johnson.com.au\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-03-17T11:06:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T00:06:59","slug":"vmware-shared-serial-ports-with-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peter-johnson.com.au\/index.php\/2009\/03\/17\/vmware-shared-serial-ports-with-windows-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare shared serial ports with Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the serial communications ports on a VMWare machine I had setup for embedded development stopped working. I believe what triggered the problem was booting the VM while another VM had the same physical serial ports locked and it appeared to get the XP device stack into an odd state. 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